skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you sure this is the best solution?

No, but I've been using it without issues for close to 25 years.
I'll save you some time if you haven't read this yet:

> Hopefully, as you can see, epoll can automatically monitor any kind of kernel resource without having to be modified, due to its composable design, which makes it superior to kqueue from the perspective of having less technical debt.

That's literally the entire argument.

That's not what technical debt means. The author doesn't reference a single line of source code: this is vapid clickbait.
I would think it’s the other way around. If you have separate subsystems for events of types A, B, C, etc. there’s no easy way you can have a process wait for “an event of type A or C, whichever comes first”.

There also is the thing that, sometimes, different types of event are identical types, lower down in the stack. A simple example are keyboard and mouse events generated from USB devices.

Why would the low-level USB stack have to do a switch on device type to figure out what subsystem to post an event to?
They could presumably strike some deal, if there is political will on both sides.

UK and Scandinavia got to opt out of the Euro, for example.
where do you find "come in and clean up our mess" jobs? i'd love to take on some of those (i actually enjoy doing that)
I don't think anyone is proposing to start with a NY to LA HSR line. It's more like NY to DC, LA to SF, and maybe expand from there little by little.
My personal experience says South America (especially Brazil) is more popular, largely due to the similar time zones. Larger companies with a presence in Europe won't really have that problem, though, so it might be more of a smaller or startup company thing.
But they can’t fake notarization, can they? What I’m getting from your comment is that they can send a screenshot of your id and that’s enough. If so, it is indeed a problem on the employers/legislation side. Expecting your numbers to not leak was a bad plan from the beginning. You should be able to publish these without any serious consequences for anyone involved (apart from deanonymization-related issues basically).

I’m also heavily “leaked”, but nobody can do anything with my numbers without actual counterfeiting. I could share my ids here if not for pseudonymity. The fact that your identity can be legally hired into a company without your proven id hard copies, that’s the root of the problem, imo.
> It's time we acknowledge that the H1-B visa program creates a similar dynamic. The program’s restrictive rules effectively hang over visa holders like the sword of Damocles, leaving them perpetually at risk and easily controlled.

This is why I went through the pain and cost of sponsoring my own O1 and later EB instead of relying on an employer or spousal visa. You just cannot be a full participant with someone who can get you kicked out of the country on 10 day notice.
It's logistically impossible for the USA to invade China.

The USA spends a few percent on its military, something more than say the EU, but the reason the military is so large is because the economy is so large. When we say the USA has the largest army, we're really saying the USA has the largest economy.

The Chinese economy is now comparable to the US economy, by dint of their being about three times as many people, but we're looking now at a massive military build up along with intensely threatening behaviour toward Taiwan. Do we forget the repeated massive military exercises to chastise "separative elemnts" in Taiwan, every time a senior US politician visits? do we forget the events in Hong Kong? the ongoing suppression of Tiananmen Square? and of the Uyghurs?
Ah okay that's a good read. I'm just always on edge about my language and sometimes view the worst possible interpretation rather than what most would read. I'm not a negative person... just goes back to some "protecting myself" instincts I unfortunately had to develop. Thanks for that view.
The abuse is real. Many "domestic" consulting companies dominate the H-1B visa application process, often resorting to significant fraud in the past. A large portion of these applicants have had no prior connections to the U.S. and are frequently underpaid. While cheating has decreased, there remains a need to elevate the standards in place.

It's important to note that these individuals are not directly competing with or displacing U.S. citizens from their jobs. They are primarily employed by the consulting firms themselves. The challenges in securing employment stem from the slowdown in the rapid expansion of the tech industry. As a hiring manager, when a job posting is made with a specified salary range, applicants are expected to accept that range. Given two equally qualified candidates, selecting a citizen is often the more cost-effective and less complicated choice.

New graduates often face difficulties because they largely don't possess the specific qualifications that many tech companies seek. These companies typically require individuals with practical experience. This can be gained through prior work experience (which is often unattainable for new graduates) or by demonstrating a genuine interest in technology through personal projects or contributions. Course project doesn't count.

That is the hard truth. Calling for government's protection is not the way to go.
See after just having through 3 rounds of recruiting over the past three years, I don't think the ghosting is intentional from most companies. I would say 60% of companies give a "not continuing" response after 1-2 months from application, while ~25% seem like they have a configuration/software mistake that causes it to send the rejection 6 months - a year later, which people in the meantime think was just ghosting. Not sure why this is so common
What are the paid hosting options like? Is it possible to provision the equivalent of a small VM?
If you trust anonymous in the Internet then I’ll tell you I saw many such predictions in Russian and Western media.
Apple follows the law. First you need to get the Chinese government to respect those rights. The only other choice is to stop doing business entirely in the country.
I haven't looked into io_uring except superficially, but Windows implemented Registered I/O in Windows 8 circa 2011. this is the basically the same programming paradigm used in io_uring, except it is sockets-only.

Talk here [1] speaks to the modern reality of 14 years ago :-).

Since kqueue seems very similar to IOCP in paradigm, I guess some of the overheads are similar and hence a ring-buffer-based I/O system would be more performant.

It's worth noting that NVME storage also seems to use a similar I/O pattern as RIO, so I assume we're "closer to the hardware" in this way.

1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/build-build2011/sac-...
Hiring managers don’t have infinite time and resources, they’ll just pursue other more fruitful avenues where a DoS attack isn’t possible.

This is a great way to entrench the recruiter middleman further though, because paying them a 20% cut to bypass the bullshit is already what they sell (and sometimes deliver).
Reading about z/OS systems programming is one thing. Being able to practice with it on a real system is what would likely be missing. You have to have a safe environment to learn on and it's hard to get access to those.
arguing semantics

in this particular context "rejecting the phone" means "rejecting tiktok"

no one was concerned about the phone if the vast majority of users were reading books on it
Wouldnt it be even more effective to take a job there and provide them half assed labor?
All over the world new COBOL developers are made every day. Typically they aren't specifically COBOL developers, they also have background in Java, C# or C++. It's common in institutions that rely on COBOL to have toolchains that generate code for both mainframe and regular applications or SDK:s. In many places it's no longer locked in with greybearded warlocks.
Yeah, there's commercial services such as ApplyAll that automatically applies to jobs for you for a fee. Workday is the worst to automate. Companies can add in unique required questions such as "tell us two extraordinary things you've done", so edge cases like those are common.
> denying your labor.

that's still boycotting. but it needs to be active rather than passive to send a message. not applying for work is not enough, you have to decline at offer stage on stated principles. i dont think most would go through that effort.

only the highest level individuals who Big Tech tries to poach can do this without much time invesment because they effectively have offers at first contact.
Do I also need to include disclaimers about Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc, being bad anytime I criticize China as well? Or are they exempt for some reason? Are you following your own advice, to criticize fairly and accurately across the board?
It's not to replicate 'big pharma' capitalist production.

It's not? Elsevier finally relented when universities could finally cancel their subscriptions because librarians could direct people to Sci-Hub.
> leaving them perpetually at risk and easily controlled.

I'd use a stronger term here, for some more nefarious companies can both exploit and abuse employees on a H1b visa limitation. Now go work 60 hour weeks for less than your peers!!
A short while back, Google implemented what I call "Constantly Opt-Out". Google Photos frequently prompting you to "backup those photos to ...".
They've been progressively losing seats in elections for years now. In the November 2024 election, they came out with zero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Icelandic_parliamentary_e...
A list of events that is purely unethical, unhuman. But hey, if you say this you are antisemitist!

There is a genocide, and there is a washup. World will remember, we will remember. If someone asks, tell rhe story of democracy, human rights and blah blah. If this is not a genocide, then what it is ?
> The percentages were even lower for STEM majors in biology, environmental, and agricultural science (16%), psychology (10%) and social science (9%)

If you look at engineering, computer science & math it's roughly half. Which is still pretty bad.
I would argue that your example of tech driven price collusion is unethical and a symptom of bad people implementing technology for bad purposes.

By “morally directional” I mean fundamentally a good person. Ethics are mostly easy imho although there are edge cases that are tricky or aggressively debatable due to nuance.
The very difference between somewhat and full homomorphic encryption hinges on this leakage as explained in the paper. The definition of differential privacy as well. They directly admit to leaking a certain amount of information by stating that they apply differential privacy with those given parameters. The issue I am talking about is that such concerns are applied on a single query but correlations across query (the things that actually happen with metadata) aren't considered in the delta-epsilon differential privacy model, by definition.

So if you are curious, just read up in general about differential privacy, or this classic:
https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity
Discussed here (possibly in other places too):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9553494
There’s a bit of an echo chamber on HN where people convince each other that all LLM-generated text is easy to identify, riddled with errors, and “obviously” inferior to all real-human writing. Because some LLM writing fits those criteria and is easily identified, these folks are convinced they can identify all LLM writing and anyone who can’t must be a dunce.
China historically has been ruled by committee and has been inward-looking.

China is now a dictatorship.

Dictatorships sooner or later, if they think they can get away with it, invade their neighbours.

When you see a dictatorship which is under no threat engaging in a massive military build-up, invasion is on the way.
Right, slavery isintrinsicly beneficial
Funnily, responsible waste management has been an extremely well covered topic in a lot of the DIY science/chemistry forums over the years.

It’s even come up regularly on YouTube channels like NileRed/NileBlue - he has a couple of videos on processing wastes/cleanup work done after a reaction.
are bike rental services regulated as rideshare?

either way, it's sorta symptomatic of the kneejerk overregulation that is plaguing a lot of blue states. i can understand the impulse to want to regulate dockless bikes that can cause problems... but just any bike rental?
True, exactly “noon” hasn’t had a solar definition for a while. But whatever time the sun is highest for you, I imagine you still expect that to happen at the same time every day.
What a great way for a state to cause havoc in all of Europe.

Russia definitely has the capabilities to send such signals in a coordinated attack and deny an wrong doing.

And this is just one example we know of, there must be hundreds.
The speculation in this answer also seems plausible:

https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/663324-jeju-737...
I unironically use nano for this (albeit with lots of custom macros).

It just works.

(though obviously jshell kicks in quite a bit during coding sessions, and on top of that I have several templates and custom shell scripts that help navigate docs easily)
Romans knew about thousand based multipliers with a mark over the letter.
I dunno. I’m kind of with the sentiment in his original column, or at least how he paraphrased it. I think it’s naive to believe that you can bring about any real change in tech through moral suasion alone. The monetary payoffs are too large and there are too many people who will work for them no matter what. If you want to change some behavior that you find immoral, your best bet is to organize politically and pass laws.
Any common Lisp? SBCL is no turtle.
Yeah I guess I've had only a few people be the other person that treated me right as the 1 - I feel ya on being an outsider having things dismissed. Does make sense. Another person gave me a good alternate view as well.

On a side note my couple of times I thought I was treating someone to some great knowledge they should already know I'm pretty sure I came across as condescending. Not bc they didn't know it - i always aim to be super polite - just being young, stupid, and bad at communicating, heh.
In person interview, or even coffee, filters out those who don’t actually exist and those who are reading answers from a screen (chatgpt/person)

Seems to be 90% of the problem reported on this post
I agree that China should be regarded as a particularly problematic country, but I would like the US to have a more comprehensive and introspective attitude. The US can stop the mutual bullying and take the high ground. That doesn't change the facts about China, but shifts in foreign policy and/or PR can at least give the US a better grounds as the primary opposing actor to China, if not incentivize China to change too.
> But I also think we gained something. [...] plane tickets are ridiculously cheap if you are not too picky.

Not really a gain if you ask me.. The melting glaciers are agreeing with me and they are not impressed by the downvotes I'll receive for this opinion.
techcrunch is a good source because they exchange writing fluff pieces for access, if you read them with that in mind you can get good info

there are a few outlets like this, like theinformation
The person is arguing whether it is good or bad to work for Big Tech. I wouldn't hate the players when you really should hate the game. Most of the populace is largely unaware of surveillance or why they are using products that have a negative influence. Stopping to work for Big Tech does not change this lack of education. Advocating that privacy should be respected or even supporting laws that would regulate large technology companies has been attempted to be implemented by the ACLU and EFF, but it isn’t really practical when you can hire lobbyists for around $1 million dollars, which you can use to get passed nearly anything you want. Also, Big Tech may need fewer people to achieve its goals, so I think this post is too little and too late.
true, addiction is not a moral failing

that doesn't negate what I said at all, not striving to keep a healthy body and healthy mind, not working on developing yourself, on elevating yourself, not wanting to become better, IS a moral failing

and certain hedonistic activities, like the social media dopamine dispensers, although they do not hurt other people, do hurt the moral imperative of growing yourself as a person
Reverse Trump Derangement Syndrome? Why would that apply here? Pelosi's visit did kick off the whole process. The information is based on the U.S. liberal press and not Breitbart.

Biden at the time said she went on her own. Given everything that has happened since, it is not unreasonable to assume that she had more establishment support.

If you call that a "conspiracy theory": No it is just a theory. Citizens and journalists never get full information and are therefore forced to speculate. If they didn't do that, democracies would collapse.
That rules out pretty much every member of the EU, then. Across the EU, support for EU membership is only 60%.
I bet you have classes with Service suffix.
that time zone thing is a way bigger PITA than I thought it would be when we expanded to Europe two years ago.
Jeffing: The run-walk method that can get you to the marathon finishing line
> And some pessimistic instinct tells me I should worry, like this capability will be optimized away in future versions.

A big difference here is that oprn source models are available, effective and checkpointed at this point in time!

Worst case scenario, we stop getting new open source models and are forced to query new, suboptimal models only for recent information.
Do you work in tech? Have you ever seen any pressure to create LLM-driven chaos with the goal of increasing support for encouraging immigration in future years?

It’s too elaborate of a Rube Goldberg strategy to take very seriously. Companies struggle to achieve simple, clear, short-term goals in tight-knit, well-aligned teams. Ain’t nobody got the skill to pull off that level of conspiracy.
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It is logistically impossible for China to invade Russia.

Additionally, Russia is important to China, in that the war with Ukraine supports Chinese goals.

Also note the Chinese build-up is of capabilities for a cross-channel invasion of a nearby coastline.
> users may never want or need

Are you assuming that Apple did not perform a market analysis when implementing this feature? I think that is unlikely, considering the effort.
Can someone expound on this bit?

Big M Drug Mart had been charged in May of 1982. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into force just a month prior.

Suddenly, there was a novel way to defend against the charge.

"You couldn't do it on the evidence, because they were clearly engaged in merchandising that wasn't permitted by the statute," Boyle said. "But now they had the ability to take on the law itself. That was something new."

As a US-ian, I'm used to the Constitution being an already-in-place legal base, from which challenges like this could be raised. What did the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms introduce that wasn't there before?
How many countries were invaded to be made part of the invading country? That is the most crucial aspect of invasion: the ultimate goal of it.
>> every other OS on the planet calls files and directories

I think it is a useful distinction, the one between a file and a data set. In one case the OS is kept unaware of the logical structure of a file, while the user does not need to know about its physical arrangement; in the other case, things are almost exactly the other way around.
Most countries aren't in the habit of coercing their citizens.
Climate change is making plants less nutritious − and could be hurting grazers
I couldn't access the article, but should we now be alert to colleagues with CCP thumbdrives or keyloggers?
The CCP can certainly be held accountable for the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward. They're truly Mao's heirs, and whereas some previous leaders left Mao's path, Xi is firmly back on track.
I fully agree.

Synchronous I/O looks appealing for beginners and simple projects. It seems like the simplest path for things where I/O isn’t the primary focus.

Then one suddenly finds themselves juggling ephemeral threads to “background” tasks or such. The application quickly becomes a multi-threaded monster and still suffers responsiveness issues from synchronous use.

The Tower of Babel created from third party runtimes further adds to the mess even for those who try to do better.
The space is for you.
An interviewer is a "victim"? Maybe they should just, you know, speak to their interviewees. At least in 2024 that's hardly faked by an LLM. Therefore, if you are fooled, you cheaped out, and you are hardly a victim.
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The US government is a meandering blob of racoons in a trenchcoat. Occasionally a hand will _do_ evil but even odds whether they realize it or meant it. Partially depends on which particular raccoon is where. Some of the racoons are evil.

China is actively directed by a small group of well coordinated, evil raccoons. See, you know, the constant genocide.
Why do you think RoI is better when infra is rented?
Populism and the World of Oz (2016)
Doubtful twitter would last more than the lawsuit
People with similar mindsets gather on the same platform and ultimately create an echo chamber. If that's what you want, you can do the same on X/Twitter by creating your own "network". Just don't use the recommendation system and that's it.

Abolishing a platform is merely a form of performance art.
I don't think any of these things ultimately work. There will always be someone who will take the money or the deal. Advocating for regulation is the most effective way forward. But probably the first thing to advocate for is some notion of "equal speech," not just "free speech," otherwise it will be very hard to get any new regulation passed.

By equal speech I mean that people should have equal opportunity to be heard and pitch ideas when it comes to political advocacy. If the rich can send a million messages for every one of yours, no one will ever hear or listen to you.
It's mostly a decision to manage the total amount I spend on LLM tools. Given unlimited money I suppose I'd still be subscribed to Perplexity because the UI is slightly better than Claude and chatGPT for web results. But Claude and chatGPT are plenty enough for my web use cases while allowing me full access to all of their models for non web search use cases.
> there are too many people who will work for them no matter what

BigTech was already struggling to hire the caliber of engineers they needed when I worked there (and I left 5 years ago), and a fair number of the best candidates were refusing on ethical grounds (in that era, mostly around Cambridge Analytic and Facebook's involvement in Myanmar, but also due to concerns about blatant marketing to teens).

I don't think it's a given that these companies can maintain a staff of thousands of top-tier engineers as they sink themselves ever deeper into the various ethical quagmires.
I agree with the author that questions of ethics are social optimization problems.

> We must balance optimizing for oneself with optimizing for others

Yet if each person would optimize for themself, then the balancing is automatically taken care of. The invisible hand is even more free and dexterous on the social scale than the economic.

> the belief in the magical power of the free market always to serve the public good has no theoretical basis. In fact, our current climate crisis is a demonstrated market failure.

The power of the free market is at least as theoretically and empirically sound as the climate crisis.
> Why does Apple keep insisting that I want anything to do with them after I bought the device?

Um, because that is what their customers are asking for?
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